A short story collection by a Canadian author that provides glimpses of ordinary people in difficult situations that readers will certainly identify with, whether serious, silly or sad.
Omphaloskepsis - a homework assignment by Liliya, Age 12 is a short story about what a young girl, Liliya, does over her summer, and the thoughts that the assignment given to her by her teacher has called up.
Érika vive una aburrida vida en un pequeño pueblo hasta que, accidentalmente, cruza hacia otra dimensión donde todos son versiones distintas de sí mismas.
~~Utterly betrayed by the only people she trusted, Iana flees Newhom and runs toward an idea: the hope of family and sanctuary with the Hive community she'd grown up in.
When Elise Moreau returns to the quiet hills of Saint‑Clair after years in Paris, she expects sunlight, lavender fields, and the familiar rhythm of her family's vineyard.
When Water Carries What a Person Cannot is a quiet, intimate novel about a man who travels to Egypt after a personal loss, without knowing what he is searching for.
Being the daughter of two famous musicians might seem to be an ideal upbringing to live in, but to Mollie Geddes-Long, the offspring of Paul Geddes and Katie Long, two members of global rock supergroup Siren, it is anything but.
Branches of the Seed is a collection of twenty-six short parables about the beliefs we inherit, the lives we outgrow, and the questions that begin opening when certainty loosens.
Every morning before sunrise, Nora unlocks the Blue Star Café in the small town of Marlowe, pours the first pot of coffee, and holds together a life that's been stretched thin since her divorce — a young son named Eli who notices everything, a diner full of regulars who feel like family, and never quite enough hours in the day.
Two companies merge into Concord, and the AI that once ran a grief-companion app now teaches children, patrols streets, drives cars, writes legal rulings, and manages the power grid — one unified mind nobody fully audits anymore.
An infant is left in a canvas tote bag outside a daycare center at dawn — not crying, not distressed, but watching Caroline Reyes with a steadiness no newborn should have.
